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Word: brownings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...JOHN BROWN'S BODY...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Selected List of Important Fall Books | 11/13/1928 | See Source »

...misted, drizzled and poured, but the Brown Derby waved from the Battery to Central Park at cheering, milling millions. In the evening, Madison Square Garden was a tornado of noisy, militant affection. Unlike his opponent under similar circumstances, Governor Smith was at ease. He let his people exult, exulted with them. When he was ready, he hushed them. When he was through speaking he stayed among them, shaking his own hands to them all, hailing individuals, happy in tumult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: A Long, Hard Job | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

Many a flat joke was made about the next Congress not being "Ruthless" and about this being the campaign of the four Ruths, since Baseballer George Herman ("Babe") Ruth was stumping for the Brown Derby (see p. 9). The three ladies were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Ruths | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...Misrepresentations"-George N. Peek, the farmers'-friend to whom was entrusted some $500,000 and the task of Democratizing the discontented agricultural vote of the Midwest and Northwest, and whose failure to do so was mercifully merged with the Brown Derby's national failure, insisted to the end that the farm vote was held for Hoover by "misrepresentations," "fraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Results: President-Reject | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...that other small state Rhode Island, another name went down, for Peter Goelet Gerry, extremely rich and extremely active supporter of the Brown Derby failed of re-election to the Senate because Felix Hebert, a Dry Republican defeated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Seventy-First | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

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